Five most awkward live TV moments

"Never work with children or animals" or so the saying goes, but live TV is much more nerve-wracking than that. Especially when the whole world is watching.

These bloopers are so awkward that they've gone down in television history (or will, very, very soon)...

1. Warren Beatty gets it wrong at the Oscars

And the winner is...La La Land. Or maybe not. Poor Beaty had to stop Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling mid-celebration to break the news that the winner of best picture was, in fact, Moonlight. Ouch.

2. Steve Harvey's "horrible mistake"

The most watched moment in Miss Universe history, probably. Miss Colombia has her back to the audience and is blowing kisses to "runner-up" Miss Philippines when presenter Steve Harvey makes his admission: he'd mixed the pair up. Cue even more tears and an awkward crown swap.

3. Australia's Next Top Model mix-up

A bad earpiece feed was apparently to blame for this one. TV host, Sarah Murdoch crowned the wrong "top model" and quickly admitted she "felt sick" at her "insane" mistake. Kelsey Martinovich was quickly stripped of her title — and lucrative modeling contract — as real winner, Amanda Ware looked on in disbelief.

4. BBC News stuff-up

BBC News was left looking a little red faced after a taxi driver was mistaken for an Internet music business expert during a live interview. Luckily, he went along with the questions and the whole thing became TV gold. Meanwhile the real interviewee was sat in reception no doubt completely confused by what he was watching.

5. John Travolta's Idina Menzel moment

On this day in 2014, Adele Dazeem was the name on everybody's lips. Why? Well, John Travolta successfully managed to mispronounce Idina Menzel as just that as he introduced the singer to the stage. Afterwards, he blamed everything from the phonetic spelling on the card to being "starstruck" after running in to Goldie Hawn backstage.